OOOO! I liked this. Needed to read it too.
Vicki
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Subject: [ECHURCH-USA] Our Only Provider
> vinny sends me things once and awhile. Today this one really really
really
> encouraged me. I believe it will you, too. Remember, Faith comes by
> hearing and hearing by the Word of God. I will post more of this later.
>
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> Dearly Beloved:
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> MAY THE LOVE OF GOD SHINE UPON YOU!
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> Today these words of Jesus impacted my soul: "Be not
> therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? Or what shall
> we drink? Or how shall we be clothed? For after all these
> things do the Gentiles seek" (Matthew 6:31-32).
>
> Jesus is warning about the heathenism of worry. He tells us
> that worry - about the future of our family, about jobs,
> about how we are to survive - is a heathen's way of life.
> Jesus is talking here about those who have no heavenly
> Father. They do not know God as he wants to be known, as a
> caring, providing, loving Father in heaven. To those who
> believe, I say it is not enough to know him only as the
> Almighty, the Creator, the Lord of all Lords. He wants us to
> know him as our heavenly Father. "For your heavenly Father
> knoweth that you have need of all these things" (v. 32).
>
> "Take therefore no thought for tomorrow" (v. 34). In these
> plain words, Jesus commands us, "Do not give a thought, do
> not give a worry, about what might or might not happen
> tomorrow. You can't change anything. And you can't help by
> worrying. When you do, you're only doing as the heathen do."
> Then Jesus says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
> righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you"
> (v. 33). In other words, you're to go on loving Jesus.
> You're to move on, casting all your cares on him. You're to
> go on resting in his faithfulness. Your heavenly Father will
> see to it that you are supplied with all the essential
> things of life.
>
> I wonder if the angels are baffled by all the worrying and
> anxiousness of those who claim to trust in God. To them it
> must seem so degrading, so insulting to the Lord, that we
> worry as if we had no caring Father in heaven. What
> perplexing questions the angels must ask among themselves:
> "Have they no Father who is in heaven? Do they not believe
> he loves them? Did he not tell them he knows all about their
> needs? Do they not know the Father sends us to take charge
> of them in times of danger? Do they not believe that he who
> feeds the birds and the whole animal kingdom will feed and
> clothe them? How can they fret and worry if they know he
> owns all power, all wealth, and can supply the needs of all
> creation? Would they accuse their heavenly Father of
> neglect, as if he was not true to his word?"
>
> The birds sing, while we complain and speak fear and express
> anxiety. The lilies of the field stand tall in their glory,
> while we wilt and bend before the smallest wind of
> adversity. I read this poem this morning, which puts it
> succinctly:
>
> The very birds reprove thee with all their happy song; the
> very flowers teach thee that fretting is a wrong. "Cheer
> up," the sparrow chirpeth. "Thy Father feedeth me; think how
> much he careth, oh lovely child, for thee." "Fear not," the
> flowers whisper, "since thus he hath arrayed the buttercup
> and daisy. How canst thou be afraid?" Then don't you trouble
> trouble, till trouble troubles you. You'll only double
> trouble, and trouble others too.
>
> You have a heavenly Father. Trust him.
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> behalf of all the mothers, fatherless children and others
> who are under the care of our various outreaches to the
> needy.
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> Love in Christ.
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> His bondservant,
> DAVID WILKERSON
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> DW:bbm 11.15.04
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